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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
5
A rousing display features 100 women’s skirts in veils panamas and plain fabrics. Prices range from 5.75 to 10 dollars with twenty new chiffon panamas in brown black and blue. Silk-trimmed waists offer refined styling for the season.
A fragmentary notice announces new Persian Lawns priced at 20 cents per yard, advertised for sale Monday and Tuesday with mentions of May and June availability and a smooth silky finish. The exact lot details are incomplete due to garbled text.
A dealer offers a large lot of over two thousand yards of Percales, Ginghams, and Belge Cloths priced at 5c per yard. Many pieces normally sold for 10c and some up to 12c are included. the full pieces are displayed on a center table and priced at 4c per yard.
A lively Monday and Tuesday sale offers boys wool cassimere salts priced at 1.25. The special table features sizes 6 to 15 years with no extra charge for large sizes, regular 3 values reduced to 1.25 for these days.
A collection of women's waists in Persian lawn fabric, in a dozen designs. Some styles feature openwork embroidery and yoke effects, others have pin tucks. Advertised as the best $1.50 waists seen in America, available during March.
A newspaper notice advertises silk taffeta ribbons at 10 cents per yard with a forthcoming purchase of fifteen hundred yards in black white and staple colors. Ribbons range from 3 to 5 inches wide and priced 15 to 25 cents per yard with sale days Monday and Tuesday.
Advertises leatherette suitcases 22 by 24 inches offered at 98 cents instead of the regular $1.50. Indicates availability on Monday and Tuesday at the stated price, emphasizing strong and serviceable quality.
One lot of ladies embroidered handkerchiefs, regular 25c grade, slightly soiled from window display. Sold Monday and Tuesday at 6. 1DBKHEO.
A new shipment of colored dress linens offered at 19 cents per yard, for colors blue green brown navy and pink. The sale runs Monday and Tuesday with blankets of 25 and 35 cent values described as pure linen and good quality.
A new lot of Highland Butchers linen described as not all linen but a top imitation. White and colored shades offered. Regularly 25 cents per yard, on sale Monday and Tuesday at 13 1 2 cents per yard.
An odd lot of lace curtains is placed on sale at less than manufacture cost. Items vary from two to four pairs of the same pattern, lengths around 8 12 yards and widths near two yards. Customers may select here Monday and Tuesday at 3.38 per pair.
A notice announces a sale of fifty thousand envelopes at one cent per package of twenty five for Monday and Tuesday only. Customer limit capped at five packages, price applies per package, sale restricted to these two days.
A local sale offers one hundred dozen children s full size handkerchiefs for 1c each, a grade normally selling from 3c to 1c. Readily available Monday and Tuesday at each location, while supplies last.
A fine smooth grade of all Mnen sheeting measures 90 inches wide and typically sells for 1.25 per yard, but is offered for Monday and Tuesday only at 98 cents per yard, promising a bargain on this quantity and quality.
Advertises limited sale of Fruit of Loom and Lonsdale bleaching at 8 3 4 cents per yard. No telephone or mail orders accepted. Not more than 10 yards per buyer. Auction starts Monday and Tuesday at the stated price.
One case genuine huckaback towels size 18 by 36 inches, plain and colored. Regularly priced 12 1/2 cents per towel. Available Monday and Tuesday per dozen for 98 cents.
Advertised ladies suits priced from $20 to $30 in fine broadcloth and high class mixtures. The notice urges shoppers to pick from the lot on Monday and Tuesday, signaling a clearance of affordable, upper quality attire.
Readable text shows men s fancy vests priced at 1 25 and waistcoats 2 00 to 3 50 mercerized cotton and white washable vests on sale Monday and Tuesday at the store with prices 1 25 for select items and other stages mentioned.
Linen awn thirty six inches wide sold to one buyer only. Very sheer material priced at 25 cents per yard, regularly 50 cents. Available Monday and Tuesday at the stated rate. Limited to ten yards per purchaser.
A fresh shipment brings 19,000 yards of Valencevine laces since January 15. The latest stock appears better than previous lots with more matched sets. All new stock goes on sale here Monday and Tuesday by the yard.
Durable heavy denium overalls for men waist up to 42 inches and length up to 36 inches offered at 75 cents, historically valued at one dollar worldwide. The offer highlights Union made construction and affordable workwear.
A local sale advertises Huckaback towels size 18 by 36 inches at 5 cents per case of eight. Customers limited to no more than one dozen towels per buyer. regular price is 10 cents. Sale runs Monday and Tuesday.
One thousand ladies white handkerchiefs of sheer lawn offered for Monday and Tuesday at 2 1-2 cents each. Regular size, elze and worth as usually sold. Indicates a promotional sale at a local shop with limited stock.
Dress ginghams in over fifty designs offered at reduced prices. Regular widths and fast colors. Previously 12 1-2c to 15c per yard, now available at 9 3-4c for Monday and Tuesday.
Lingerie cloth, thirty six inches wide and very sheer, offered at a notable discount. The sale promises value on yardage Monday and Tuesday, with a tag asserting the fabric as good as any 50c value seen. The text emphasizes low pricing and availability.
Monday morning March 9th a lot of 45 inch waist nets goes on sale at 49 cents per yard. Full stock available in white and colors for Monday and Tuesday.
Advertises black taffeta priced at 98 cents per yard for Monday and Tuesday only. Claims excellent black silk suitable for dresses and petticoats, with a 36 inch width and the price guaranteed per yard.
Twenty dozen men's four in hand ties of rich heavy silk in new styles and full regular length. Regularly sold for 50 cents. Now offered for Monday and Tuesday at twenty four cents each.
An advertisement offers men’s dress shirts reduced to 50 cents. Styles include stiff bosoms from brands like International Monarch Jos Fowler Baris. Almost a complete run of sizes from one dollar to one dollar fifty, with no items under 91.00. Available Monday and Tuesday at 22s e B00.
New Orleans cotton futures eased after the holiday, down 14 points from Monday. Weaker tone echoed from New York, with distant positions off by two. Opening gains in New York faded. prices slid through the morning to close at session lows. Liverpool steadied with modest gains, while local spot stayed unchanged at about 11 3-8 cents for good middling. Sumter County campaigns and candidate antics fill the rest of the page, with brutal humor about the many hopefuls and a note on a fire loss in Americus.
Americus cotton market quotes show steady prices with Good Middling and Middling values near 11 cents. York futures in New York closed steady with futures at around 10.65 to 10.78. Savannah and New Orleans report middling around 11 cents, while Liverpool closes steady with upland middling at 6.11 pence.
An ad notes Rogers Liverwort Tar and Gondaragua as a complete cure for coughs colds asthma bronchitis and lung complaints with a long history of being a standard remedy. It promises safety for children, price one dollar, and sale by Williams Manufacturing Co. Cleveland Ohio, and bold by W. A. Rembart. The item ends with a satirical jab about death by handling dirty money amid a quote from the Washington Post.
The teachers institute for white teachers in Sumter County will convene on March 14 and 28, April 11 and 26, and May 9. All county school teachers must attend. The event starts at 10 o clock a.m. in W. S. Moore office.
A reader from Desrreta, Florida expresses nostalgia for the Americus Recorder from boyhood days and apologizes for a delayed payment of three dollars. The note remarks Speaker Cannon as too old to be surprised if several Congressmen who cheered him later back another man’s presidential boom. Washington commentary adds a political reflection.
Sumter County will sell before the court house door in Americus Georgia on the first Tuesday in April 1908 the property described as a house and lot on the east side of Cotton avenue fronting sixty feet and running back eighty feet to Judgent Montgomery. It lies south of Martin Grinton shop and north of Charles Crocker property known as the old Harrises, bounded by Cotton avenue, currently occupied by the Friendship Baptist church. Levied on as the property of R E B Lee to satisfy an execution from the City Court of Americus in favor of Bank of Commerce. Tenant in possession notified. February 5 1908. B L Bell Sheriff
On November 5 1907 W Kirvin filed a petition in Sumter Superior Court against Mrs Maggie C Kirvin to annul disabilities of marriage. The case is set for trial in the May term 1908 at Sumter Superior Court.
Sumter County Georgia announces road petitions for a second class public road from Lamar to Leslie Gall and a proposed discontinuation of a public road in Tatum Place. Hearings set for the first Monday in April 1908 with notices dated February 3 1908. W L Thomas John Clapton and others listed as petitioners and officials.
A sheriffs sale will occur at the courthouse door in Americus Sumter County Georgia on an upcoming Tuesday in April. The property is a house and lot on the north side of Ashby Street bounded by Nb Alley Andrew Burton Allen Street and Ashby Street. The sale satisfies a Sumter County Justice Court execution in favor of F A Thomas against Andrew Burton with the tenant in possession noted. levy by J W Cobb L C and returns recorded February 1908.
Legal notices from Sumter and Webster counties announce guardianship and administration applications. J J Culler seeks discharge as guardian for Jake and family, while B J McMath seeks permanent administration of W T McMath estate. M J Leverett and W H Cosby schedule hearings for guardianship and administration. Notices urge filing objections by the first Monday in April 1908 and warn timely publication rules.
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